The kenner Surname
kenner Name Meaning and History
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Kenner ‘connoisseur’ (from kennen ‘know’), hence a nickname for someone considered to be knowledgeable or an expert of some kind; it may also have been used ironically to denote a ‘know-all’.
- German: habitational name for someone from Kenn, near Trier.
- German: topographic name for someone living near a water pipe or channel, from Middle High German kener ‘water channel’, ‘drainage pipe’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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